{"id":106415,"date":"2021-04-25T23:42:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T03:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=106415"},"modified":"2025-07-26T16:01:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T20:01:24","slug":"phineas-gage-a-gruesome-but-true-story-about-brain-science-book-john-fleischman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=106415","title":{"rendered":"Phineas Gage [ A Gruesome But True Story About Brain Science ] ( book ) &#8230; John Fleischman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/posts\/106415.jpg\" alt=\"Phineas Gage [ A Gruesome But True Story About Brain Science ] ( book ) ... John Fleischman\" style=\"height:200px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This book; a True Story only in the sense most historical biographies are, meaning it&#8217;s based on what someone says other people said happened; is compelling at the start. That&#8217;s partly because it begins with the Gruesome; Phineas Gage is &#8220;world famous&#8221; for being cranially impaled by a tamping iron; instead of eventually leading into it.<\/p>\n<p>Once the tale of his Horrible Accident is told, John Fleischman is left stretching the rest of Gage&#8217;s otherwise unexceptional life out with what comes across as an extended epilogue. He does so by digressing into detailed medical synopses and Science lessons regarding the Brain, comparing what we &#8220;know&#8221; now to what they knew back in the 1800s.<\/p>\n<p>my rating : 3 of 5<\/p>\n<p>2002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book; a True Story only in the sense most historical biographies are, meaning it&#8217;s based on what someone says other people said happened; is compelling at the start. That&#8217;s partly because it begins with the Gruesome; Phineas Gage is &#8220;world famous&#8221; for being cranially impaled by a tamping iron; instead of eventually leading into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=106415\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phineas Gage [ A Gruesome But True Story About Brain Science ] ( book ) &#8230; John Fleischman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9761],"tags":[17059,246,12974,12975,817,9349],"class_list":["post-106415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-reviews-with-a-3-of-5-rating","tag-books","tag-health","tag-john-fleischman","tag-phineas-gage","tag-science","tag-vermont"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106415"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106420,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106415\/revisions\/106420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}